Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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Method for treating solid waste with an organic fraction.
The present invention concerns a method for treating solid
waste with an organic fraction, according to which method
the waste is sieved while wet.
In the case of a selected collection of domestic waste, the
organic fraction, provided it does not contain any major
amounts of heavy metals, can be biologically treated into a
high-grade compost.
The remaining residual waste, also called grey waste, still
contains an amount of organic material and materials which
can be recycled. This waste is burnt or dumped, which is
relatively expensive and not environmentally friendly.
In some cases there is no selected collection of the
domestic waste. This mixed domestic waste, which still
contains a large fraction of organic material, is treated
in the same manner as the above-mentioned residual waste.
Installations have been built to recycle the fractions of
the above-mentioned residual waste and mixed waste which
are suitable to be recycled. A thorough pre-selection was
hereby carried out, followed by a biological treatment to
obtain compost.
The major problem thereby is the quality of the end
products, especially the presence of heavy metals, in
particular in the compost.
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Up to now, the selection has not been sufficient to produce
large amounts of marketable end products with a stabilised
organic fraction having a low proportion of heavy metals.
For several years, also dry selection of residual waste and
mixed domestic waste has been applied by means of sieves,
magnets erected above conveyor belts, air selectors, etc.
The quality of the end products is such that they are not
suitable for re-use or recycling. The dry selection
techniques are so inefficient that in many countries, a
separate collection of recyclable waste and biowaste has
been introduced so as to obtain separate flows and so as to
obtain products of an acceptable quality thanks to
selection and treatment.
According to known methods for treating grey and mixed
domestic waste or other solid waste with an organic
fraction, the waste is biologically treated by making use
of aerobic composting. The waste is stabilised and dried
while being composted, after which ferrous metals and a
fine sand fraction are recycled. The other major part of
the dry substance of the waste has to be burnt, which is
expensive.
Wet selection offers interesting prospects, in particular
for residual waste, mixed waste with an organic fraction
originating from domestic waste, and industrial waste which
is comparable to domestic waste, which have been pre-
selected in a conventional manner.
The removal of ferrous metals by means of magnets which are
built in in waste conveyor devices or which hang over them,
is restricted to large parts which are attracted by the
magnets. A large number of smaller particles remains
embedded in the waste.
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Few devices for the treatment of solid domestic waste
reduce the organic fraction to less than 20 mm, since the
costs therefor rise fast with the degree of reduction.
Wet selection offers the possibility to loosen the
particles from one another by adding large amounts of
water, as a result of which the different components become
accessible for selection.
However, the application of wet selection methods has been
restricted up to now, as they usually produce strongly
contaminated waste water, whose further treatment is
expensive.
In aerobic composting installations, in which a solid
substance content of about 50% is ideal, only a small
amount of water can be added before an excess of waste
water is produced which cannot be internally recycled in
the composting device.,
Methods whereby use is made of an anaerobic fermentation
offer more possibilities for a wet selection, since said
fermentation takes place in more humid circumstances than
the aerobic composting, and an excess of waste water often
cannot be avoided, so that a device for the water removal
and the treatment of waste water is in any case required.
Anaerobic fermentation of waste can take place by means of
dry fermentation, with over 15% dry substance in the
reactor, as well as by means of wet fermentation with less
than 15% dry substance in the reactor.
Methods whereby use is made of the wet fermentation for the
treatment of waste which has been selected at the source,
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are designed to remove pollutants such as floating
materials and heavy substances before the wet fermentation
takes place, such that a fraction is obtained which is rich
of organic material and poor of pollutants, as described
for example in EP-A-0.520.172.
According to this last method, solid components are
separated before the ferrous metals are separated from the
dry waste by means of magnets and after water has been
added, after which the residue is subjected to the wet
fermentation.
A device which is suitable for the wet selection of heavy
aggregates from mixed domestic waste or similar waste is
described in EP-A-0.228.724. Stones, ceramic materials,
batteries and heavy lumps, including some lumps of
synthetic material, are separated by means of a separating
tank filled with water, before the biological treatment
takes place, so as to obtain a compost with few heavy
components.
The treatment of mixed solid domestic waste may also
include a wet pre-treatment into a pulp or a wet sieving,
followed by a separation by a hydrocyclone.
According to such a known method, the waste with an organic
fraction is pre-treated first in a dry selection device,
where a combustible fraction, ferrous metals and other
materials are recycled.
Mixed organic waste is separated by means of sieving, and
after having been diluted with water, it is supplied to
hydrocyclones, where the large inert components are
separated.
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The remaining fine organic material is separated by means
of a sieve and then directed to a hydrocyclone again, where
the sand fraction is removed. This last fraction is
dewatered.
The rough organic fraction which is stopped by the above-
mentioned sieve, is mixed with synthetic materials and
other undesirable pieces which have already been separated
and reduced in a crushing mill.
The remaining organic fraction is finally subjected to a
fermentation.
As the separation takes place before the fermentation, the
water is strongly contaminated, however, since all soluble
components, such as organic fatty acids, sugars, etc. are
present in the waste. Moreover, large quantities of water
are required, and the separation is inefficient due to the
heterogeneous character of the waste, which still contains
the sticky and smelly organic substances which will have to
be degraded in the subseq_uent fermentation or composting.
In fact, only sand is obtained as a recyclable material.
According to other known methods, the materials are
separated after the fermentation or composting of the
organic fraction. US-A-4.079.837 describes a method for
the recycling of recyclable materials after a fragmentation
by means of thermal explosive decompression, followed by a
biodegradation in a composting treatment. The fragmented
and composted waste residue is separated into several
fractions by means of conventional dry sieving and
separation by air. Synthetic material is separated by
means of floatation.
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Fine sand, clay and other inert materials can be separated
during the treatment after the hydrolysis in a two-phase
fermentation as described in EP-A-0.142.873.
All the above-mentioned methods with wet treatments produce
a compost of low quality and secondary materials, most of
which contain too many heavy metals, especially if domestic
residual waste or mixed waste is taken as a basis.
The positive effect of the biological treatment is often
mainly restricted to the recycling of energy in the form of
biogas and the production of a highly calorific fraction at
the time of the dry selection during the pre-treatment.
The invention aims a method for the treatment of solid
waste with an organic fraction which does not have the
above-mentioned disadvantages and which makes it possible
to obtain end oroducts which do not contain large
proportions of heavy metals.
This aim is reached according to a method for treating solid waste with an
organic fraction, according to which method the waste is sieved while wet,
characterised in that a slurry, made by diluting waste with water is sieved,
by
means of at least one sieving device which lets pieces through having a
dimension in at least one direction smaller than or equal to 5 mm, in order to
retain a rough fraction after which, from the slurry which has passed through,
a
part of the ferrous metals which are present in the waste is removed by means
of magnets, and the slurry is dewatered and the water of the dewatering
process
is recycled and is used for diluting the waste.
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It was found that the heavy metals usually adhere, to
ferrous metals, so that thanks to the removal of the
latter, the concentration on the rest of the waste is
reduced.
US-A-4.077.847 discloses a complete treatment process of
municipal waste in which the solid waste is initially
segregated through comminution and classification, ferrous
metal is separated from the waste by a magnetic separator
and the waste is dry sieved. The organic fraction is
further comminuted, dried and fed to a pyrolysis system.
The inorganic fraction is further classified into aluminium
and glass fractions. During the glass recovery, a slurry of
glass is made and in a spiral classifier, the small
quantity of organic material still present in the glass
slurry is washed by means of recycle water. This water is
screened to retain fine organic material that is used for
landfill.
According to the invention, the diluted slurry can be
produced in a separate stage which takes place just before
the sieving or even during the sieving. However, the
dilution into a slurry can also take place during a pre-
treatment, for example during an anaerobic fermentation or
hydrolysis when the dry substance content is low.
Preferably, waste is sieved which has been diluted into a
slurry with a dry substance content of less than 10%.
Preferably, after the separation of the ferrous metals and
after the dewatering of the slurry, the obtained dewatered
fraction is subjected to a biological treatment.
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Between the sieving and the removal of the ferrous metals,
the above-mentioned slurry can be aerated.
After the removal of the ferrous metals, the sand can be
removed from the slurry, for example by means of at least
one hydrocyclone, and the fibrous material can be removed
from it, for example by sieving with the help of at least
one sieving device which lets pieces through whose
dimension in at least one direction, and preferably in at
least two standing directions, is smaller than 2 mm.
In order to better explain the characteristics of the
invention, the following preferred embodiments of a method
for the treatment of solid waste containing an organic
fraction according to the invention are described as an
example only without being limitative in any way, with
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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_`igure 1 represents a block diagram of a device for
applying the method according to the invention;
figure 2 represents the part of the device :n whic'-:
faYrous metals are separated by means of magnets into
greater cietail, but still schematically;
figures 3 to 5 represent block diagrams ana'-ogous to
the one in figure 1, of devices for the applicatien of
the method according to the invention, but with
reference to otrcr embodiments of the method.
For the treatment according to the invention of solid waste
1 containing an organic fraction, as represented in figure
1, a dilution with water 3 first takes place in a dilution
device 2 until a slurry is obtained containing for example
maximum 10 s of dry substance.
The waste 1 to be treated may be the part containing
organic material which has been obtained t.ndiik5 to tl-le dr.,;
selection of mixed domestic waste, industrial waste which
is comparable to domestic waste or residual waste, or it
may originate from a composting device or a fermentation
device.
If the waste originates from an anaerobic fermentation or
hydrolysis, the dilution can take place during this pre-
treatment. The fermentation or hydrolysis can take place
with less than 10% of dry substance. The dilution device
ther, consists of the anaerobic fermentation tank or the
hydrolysis tank.
The obtained slurry 4, in which the solid substance is
strongly dispersed, is subsequently sieved in a sieving
device 5 having such openings that pieces can go through it
having a dimension in at least one direction, and
preferably in at least two directions, which is situated
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between 2 and 20 mm. This sieving device 5 has for example
round openings with a diameter of 20 mm or square openings
with a side of 20 mm, but all sorts of shapes are possible
of course.
If the slurry 4 contains clods, it is possible to provide a
mechanical action during the dilution or sieving, for
example a mechanical mixing or stirring, so that the clods
break as a result of friction or such.
In order to speed up the sieving, one or several strong
water jets can be directed onto the slurry 4, whereby these
water jets press the slurry through the sieving device and
can make the clods in the slurry disintegrate further.
It is even possible to obtain the dilution of the waste 1
by means of one or several water jets, such that the
dilution and the sieving take place in one and the same
direction, which is a combination of the dilution device 2
and the sieving device 5.
The rough fraction 6 is discharged for further treatment.
From the fine slurry 7 which goes through the sieving
device 5 and which contains particles of 20 mm at the most,
the largest part of the ferrous metals 8 is separated in a
subsequent stage by means of a magnetic treatment with one
or several magnets 9.
To this end, the slurry 7 can be guided through a pipe in
which a magnet 9, for example in the shape of a grid, is
erected between two stop valves.
From time to time, the magnet 9 with the ferrous metal:s 8
adhering onto it, is taken out of the pipe. The fer-r_~us
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metals 8 adhering to the magnet 9 are removed before the
magnet 9 is put into place again.
Instead of being placed directly in the slurry 7, the
magnet 9 can grasp over the pipe.
Both embodiments require the separation to be temporarily
stopped so as to remove the ferrous metals S.
How it is possible to work continuously is illustrated in
figure 2.
The slurry 7 is guided through an ingoing pipe 10 which
branches off in two pipes 11 and 12 onto which are mounted
removable magnets 9, for example electromagnets, which then
join one another again in an outgoing pipe 13.
Upstream of the magnets 9 is provided a stop valve 14 in
each pipe 11 and 12, whereas downstream of these magnets 9
is also erected a stop valve 15 in each pipe 11 and 12.
Between each stop valve 14 and the magnet 9 is connected a
water supply line 16 onto each pipe 11 and 12, whereas
downstream of each stop valve 15 is connected a discharge
pipe 18 for ferrous metals 8 which can be closed off by a
stop valve 17.
During the normal operation, the stop valves 14 and 15 are
open in either one of the pipes 11 or 12, for example the
pipe 11. The other stop valves 14 and 15 and the stop
valves 17 are closed, and no water is supplied via the
water supply lines 16.
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Ferrous metals 8 found in the slurry 7 are retained in the
pipe 11 which is in use by means of the magnet 9 which is
situated in the immediate vicinity of the slurry 7.
After a certain length of time, the stop valves 14 and 15
in the other pipe 12 are opened, whereas the stop valves 14
and 15 in the pipe 11 are closed, and the stop valve 17 in
the discharge pipe 18 connected onto it is opened. The
magnet 9 is removed from the pipe 11, so that the ferrous
metals 8 are no longer retained. By injecting water via
the water supply lines 16, these ferrous metals 8 are
discharged from the pipe 11, via the open stop valve 17 and
the discharge pipe 18.
Then, the water supply is stopped and the above-mentioned
stop valve 17 is closed again. The electromagnet 9 is put
in its initial position again on the pipe 11.
In the meantime, ferrous metals 8 have been removed from
the slurry 7 in the other pipe 12 by the other
electromagnet 9.
The removal of the ferrous metals 8 from this pipe 12 takes
place in the same manner as described above for pipe 11,
but the stop valves 14 and 15 in this pipe 11 are first
opened again, so that the ferrous metals 8 can now be
separated again in the first pipe 11.
Thus, both pipes 11 and 12 are alternately used for the
removal of the ferrous metals 8.
In all these embodiments, the slurry 19 from which the
ferrous metals 8 have been removed in a magnetic manner, is
discharged to a dewatering device 20, for example a
centrifuge, in which they are dewatered. The separated
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water 3 with a solid substance content of less than 5o is
recycled to the dilution device 2.
This dewatering can take place in two or several steps,
whereby the last step is a mechanical dewatering and a
preceding step is sedimentation or floatation, either or
not with the addition of flocculation means.
The dewatered fraction 21 has a low concentration of heavy
metals, since the latter are partly fixed on the ferrous
metals 8 and have been retained together with the latter by
the magnets 9. This fraction 21 can be dumped or for
example composted.
Between the magnetic removal of the ferrous metals 8 and
the dewatering, the slurry 19 can be subjected to an
aerobic treatment or oxidation, for example it can be
aerated in an aerator 22, in which air is blown in via a
pipe 23, as represented in figure 3.
This embodiment further differs from the above-described
embodiment in that the rough fraction 6 is guided from the
sieving to a separation device 24, for example a
sedimentation tank, where the fraction 25, consisting of
the organic and woody fraction, as well as the synthetic
fraction, is separated from the inert fraction 26.
The dewatered fraction 21 of the dewatering device 20 is
biologically treated, for example in the composting device
27, where it is processed into compost 28.
Instead of a composting device, a fermentation tank can be
used, provided the waste 1 has not been fermented yet in an
anaerobic manner.
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The removal of the ferrous metals 8 in the above-described
manner may be sufficient for some applications, but for
most waste with an organic fraction, the proportion of
heavy metals in the obtained end fractions remains too
large.
In order to avoid this, one proceeds as will be illustrated
by means of the device represented in figure 4. This
device differs from the device according to figure 3 in
that, between the magnetic separation of the ferrous metals
and the aerator 22, or the dewatering device 20 if this
aerator 22 is omitted, the following other devices are
present.
After the magnet 9 is erected a separator 29 working on the
basis of rotational flows in which the non-ferrous metals
30 are separated from the slurry 19.
Next is erected a sand separator 32, for example a
hydrocyclone, in which a sand fraction 33 is separated from
the remaining slurry 31. From this sand fraction 33 can be
removed remaining organic components and other undesirable
components in a second sand separator 34, for example a
second hydrocyclone, in order to reduce the proportion of
solid organic components, so that a rather pure and re-
usable sand fraction 35 is obtained.
The organic slurry 36 which is separated in this second
sand separator 34 is combined with the slurry 37, which is
also rich of organic components, originating from the sand
separator 32, and the resulting slurry 38 is then finely
sieved in the sieving device 39 with openings which can let
particles through whose dimension, at least in one
direction, and preferably in at least two standing
directions, is smaller than or equal to 2 mm. This sieving
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device 39 has for example round openings with a diameter of
2 mm or square openings with a side of 2 mm.
Thanks to the sieving device 39 is obtained a fine slurry
40 on the one hand, and a fibrous fraction 41 on the other
hand. The latter fraction is supplied to a third sieving
device 42, for example a basket sieve or a rotating sieve,
in which the fibres 43 having a low concentration of heavy
metals are separated from a fraction 44 containing the
synthetic materials, metals and pollutants bond with them,
and other undesirable materials, such by means of sieving.
This third sieving device 42 only lets particles through
of which at least one dimension is smaller than 500
micrometer, and it has for example round openings with a
diameter smaller than 500 micrometer or square openings
with a side smaller than 500 micrometer. In this case, the
above-mentioned dimension of the openings of the first
sieving device 5 is preferably smaller than 5 mm and the
dimension of the second sieving device 39 is smaller than 1
mm.
The fine slurry 40, having a particle size of less than 2
mm, containing the largest part of the remaining heavy
metals which did not adhere to the ferrous metals 8 and
which have not been separated by the separator 29, can be
directly dewatered in the dewatering device 20 and,
depending on the initial concentration of heavy metals and
the standard requirements for the compost 28, can be
composted in the composting device 27.
Onto this composting device can be added the sand fraction
33, or preferably the sand fraction 35 and/or the fibrous
fraction 41, or preferably the fibres 43, as is represented
by the dashed line in figure 4. From these fractions or
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fibres can possibly also be removed small amounts of
remaining heavy metals in a chemical manner, for example by
means of a chelator.
The fibres 43 offer the structure material which is
required for the aerobic treatment, whereas the slurry 40
supplies the nitrogen which is necessary for the biological
activity.
The compost 28 is a good compost which is relatively free
of pollutants such as synthetic materials and glass.
As already mentioned, an aeration or in other words an
oxidation of the slurry 40 can take place before the
dewatering, for example for 0.1 to 72 hours. Onto the
aerator 22 can be added oxidising agents. Said oxidation
promotes the dewatering.
This aeration or oxidation can, as represented in figure 4,
be preceded by a settling caused by the gravitational force
or by sedimentation, and simultaneously by floatation in a
sedimentation device 45, where the slurry 40 is thickened,
so that less aeration and dewatering is required. The
discharged water 45A is added to the water 3 for the
dilution device 2.
When the above-described method was applied, the following
results were obtained, represented in this table:
A B C D E F
Organic 8 0.8 78 94.4 50 50
volatile
substances (o?
Heavy metals
(ppm on dry
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As <5 1.8 2.6 1.6 6.1 -
Cd <0.5 <0.5 0.8 <0.5 1.5 1.4
Cr 60 48 52 21 136 36
Cu 100 93 74 29 190 80
Hg 0.1 0.8 1.1 0.7 2.8 -
Pb 55 119 91 27 225 90
Ni 16 26 25 10 63 18
Zn 310 190 480 170 824 250
Whereby
A is the sand fraction 33 after the sand separator 32,
B is the sand fraction 35 after the second sand separator
34,
C is the fibrous fraction 41 after the fine sieving in the
sieve 39,
D are the fibres 43,
E is the dewatered fraction 21,
F is the slurry after an extra purification with a
chelator.
A compost of even better quality and a smaller water
consumption can be obtained with the device represented in
figure 5. In so far as this device corresponds to the one
according to figure 4, identical fittings and flows have
been indicated with the same reference figures.
The waste 1 is first diluted in the dilution device 2 and
then sieved by the sieving device 5. The rough fraction 6
is separated in the separating device 24, for example a
sedimentation tank, into a heavy fraction, namely the inert
fraction 26 containing glass and stones and forming for
example the sediment, and an organic, woody and synthetic
fraction 25 which forms for example the floating fraction.
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The latter is dewatered in a dewatering device 46. The
separated water 47 is added to the slurry 7, before it
undergoes the magnetic treatment.
There is for example no separation by means of a separator
29, although it would be possible, but both the slurry 38
of the sand separator 32 and the slurry 40 of the fine
sieve are magnetically treated by means of a magnet 48, 49
respectively, similar to the above-described magnet 9.
Before or after each magnet 9, 48 and 49 can be erected a
separator 29 working on the basis of rotational flows to
remove the non-ferrous metals. For clarity's sake, such a
separator 29 is only represented in figure 4.
Before the sand fraction 33 of the sand separator 32 is
supplied to the second sand separator 34 in order to reduce
the proportion of organic solid substances, it is first
dewatered in a dewatering device 50, the water 51 of which
is added to the slurry 37, and subsequently the solid sand
fraction is mixed with water 53 originating from a
physical/chemical water treatment in a tank 54 in a mixer
52.
Also after the second sand separator 34, the sand fraction
is dewatered in a dewatering device 55 of which the
water 56 is collected in the tank 54. The organic slurry
36 of the second sand separator 34 is added to the organic
slurry 37 of the sand separator 33, and together they are
30 subjected to the treatment by the magnet 48 which separates
some extra ferrous metals 48A, before being finely sieved
by the sieve 39.
According to a variant, the dewatering devices 50 and 55
35 can be replaced by sedimentation tanks, whereby the
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sediment is the sand fraction, or by other appropriate
systems.
The fibrous fraction 41, before being sieved again in the
sieving device 42, is magnetically treated as a slurry by a
wet magnet 57, whereby an extra quantity of dispersed
ferrous metal 58 is removed from it. The resulting slurry
59 is dewatered in the dewatering device 60 and mixed in a
mixer 61 with water 53 coming from the tank 54.
The fibres 43 which have been separated from the synthetic
materials, the metals bond with these and other products by
means of the sieving device 42 or another separation device
are dewatered in the dewatering device 62, of which the
water 63 is collected in the tank 54 to be for example
physicochemically treated.
Thanks to this water treatment in the tank 54 and the use
of water from this tank 54 for separating sand in the
second sand separator 34 and for diluting the fibrous
fraction 41, the consumption of fresh water is minimised.
A possible excess of the water 3 which is sent from the
dewatering device 20 to the dilution device 2 can also be
treated in the tank 54. If there is too much treated and
thus purified water, this can be discharged.
From the slurry 40 which has passed through the fine sieve
39, onto which the water 64 of the dewatering device 60 has
been added, are removed the final fine rests of ferrous
metals 49A with the magnet 49, after which the slurry is
dewatered in the dewatering device 20.
Before the dewatered fraction 21 is sent to the composting
device 27, possibly together with the purified and
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dewatered sand fraction 35 and the dewate-ed fibres 43, it
can be mixed with a regenerated water solution 72 with
active chelators, and it can be dispersed by means of
mixing or friction in the device 65.
Afterwards, the ~raction 21 can be further treated in a
reactor 66, onto which are added chelators 67 which are
preferably biodegradable, for examnle as described in EP-A-
0.267.653, so as t-- soive an additional part of heavv
metals which have not been removed together with the
ferrous metals, and so as to remove them from the solid
matter at the time of the dewatering in the dewatering
device 68.
The metals 71 are separated from the water 69 of the
dewatering device 68 in a regeneration unit 70. The
regenerated water solution 72 is added to the device 65,
and is thus re-used for the removal of the heavy metals in
the reactor 66.
Ir. the last described embodiments according to figure 5and 6,
the use of fresh water is minimal and the costs for treating the excess of
water
for the treatments are limited.
The invention is bv no means limited to the above-described
embodiments represented in the accompanying drawings; on
the contrary, such a method for the treatment of solid
waste containing an organic fraction can be made in all
sorts of variants while still remaining within the scope cf
the invention.
